Wisconsin Legislature: Medical Examining Board

Ambulance service providers re MA program: assessment, fees, and trust fund; DHS duties - Act 228

BadgerCare Plus childless adults demonstration project: benefits eligibility determination, disenrollment, and redetermination changes; DHS duties [vetoed] - AB934

COVID-19 vaccines and tests administered by pharmacies: DHS to ensure MA coverage [vetoed] - AB1

DHS prohibited from certifying a MA provider that is a private entity providing abortion services, federal waiver provision [vetoed] - SB503

Direct care for persons with intellectual disabilities in nursing or intermediate care facilities: MA payments increased [Sec. 9119 (4)] - Act 58

Direct care in personal care agencies: MA reimbursement rate increased [Sec. 9119 (6)] - Act 58

Disproportionate share hospital payments increased [Sec. 227, 228] - Act 58

Enteral nutrition products administered through a tube: remove prior authorization from DHS for MA reimbursement [Admin.Code DHS 107.10] - Act 125

Group physical therapy reimbursement under MA: administrative rule changes [Admin.Code DHS 107.16] - Act 225

Health care data aggregator creates de-identified health information from MA data provided by DHS; confidentiality provision [vetoed] - AB1

Hospital services provided in a home setting (hospital-associated services): standards and MA reimbursement specified, expiration set [vetoed] - AB1

Hospitals providing nursing-facility-level custodial care and outpatient services: DHS to provide certain payment under MA; expiration and COVID-19 vaccine provisions [vetoed] - AB1

MA benefits prohibited conduct to include failure to accept offer of employment or increase of paid work hours or wages [vetoed] - AB936

MA changes re coverage of home health services and products and cross-references to “institution for mental diseases;” definition of “independent living core services” revised (remedial legislation suggested by DHS) - Act 248

MA trust fund: transfer from general fund [Sec. 9219 (2)] - Act 58

Nursing in home health agencies: MA rate [Sec. 9119 (5)] - Act 58

Permanent endowment fund transfer to MA trust fund [Sec. 167] - Act 58

Pharmacist services: MA reimbursement - Act 98

Postpartum MA coverage extended [Sec. 230-235] - Act 58

State COVID-19 response: MA payments to hospitals for nursing-level-facility custodial care; hospital-associated services standards; temporary credentials for health care providers licensed in another state, telehealth provision - Act 10

Tribal care coordination agreements re MA services [Sec. 65, 229] - Act 58

Wisconsin Healthcare Stability Plan funding [Sec. 412, 9123 (1)] - Act 58

medical clinic or centerMedical clinic or center, see Hospitals and health care facilities

medical equipmentMedical equipment, see Medical service

medical examinerMedical examiner, see Coroner

medical examining boardMedical Examining Board

Discharged military medical personnel who recently served in certain medical positions may temporarily practice certain skilled health services without a license under supervision; conditions specified; emergency rule provision - Act 158

Genetic counseling regulations and licensing; Genetic Counselors Affiliated Credentialing Board created - Act 251

Physician assistants: changes to regulation, licensure, and practice; Physician Assistant Affiliated Credentialing Board created, professional discipline provisions - Act 23

Selective abortions and disability-selective abortion prohibited; civil remedies and injunctive relief provisions [vetoed] - SB593

Temporary practice by physicians at recreational or educational camps allowed, conditions specified - Act 44

medical facilityMedical facility, see Hospitals and health care facilities

medical malpracticeMedical malpractice

Insurance law changes, issuance of funding agreements, and OCI duties - Act 114

Liability insurance for physicians and nurse anesthetists temporarily authorized to practice in Wisconsin re 2019 WisAct 185 [vetoed] - AB1

medical practice groupMedical practice, Group

Out-of-network costs related to health coverage: defined network plan prohibited from requiring enrollees to pay more than in-network during nationally declared emergency [vetoed] - AB1

medical serviceMedical service

Ambulance service providers re MA program: assessment, fees, and trust fund; DHS duties - Act 228

Complex rehabilitation technology contributing to independent completion of activities and mobility: DHS to reimburse MA recipient in a nursing home for - Act 88

DHS prohibited from certifying a MA provider that is a private entity providing abortion services, federal waiver provision [vetoed] - SB503

Direct care in personal care agencies: MA reimbursement rate increased [Sec. 9119 (6)] - Act 58

Emergency medical responder certification applicant: DHS cannot require National Registry of Emergency Medical Technicians registration or examination, an ambulance service provider or EMS program may; military service education, training, and experience provisions [vetoed] - SB89

Hospital services provided in a home setting (hospital-associated services): standards and MA reimbursement specified, expiration set [vetoed] - AB1

Hospital-associated services provided in a home setting: 2021 WisAct 10 termination date of January 1, 2022 eliminated - Act 208

Naturopathic medicine practice: regulation and licensing provisions created; Naturopathic Medicine Examining Board created - Act 130

Selective abortions and disability-selective abortion prohibited; civil remedies and injunctive relief provisions [vetoed] - SB593

medical service _ occupationsMedical service — Occupations

Battery or threat to health care providers, staff members at a health care facility, or their family made a felony - Act 209

Board of Nursing practice, licensure, and certification requirement changes re advanced practice RN, nurse-midwifery, prescribing authority, and terminology and technical changes [vetoed] - SB394

Complementary and alternative health care (CAHC) practitioners: requirements and prohibitions established; exemption from prohibition against acting without certain health-care related credentials under set conditions; DSPS authority [vetoed] - AB86

Critical incident mapping data: grants to schools to submit data to public safety officials - Act 109

EMS personnel and providers with credentials from another state may provide services in Wisconsin; conditions and expiration provisions [vetoed] - AB1

Health care providers licensed in another state: DSPS may grant temporary credentials under certain conditions [vetoed] - AB1

Pharmacy technicians authorized to administer vaccines and specified drugs for adverse reactions; any health care provider authorized to administer vaccines may supervise pharmacy students administering vaccines; use of title “pharmacist” provision - Act 3

Service award program appropriation [Sec. 13, 14, 81, 82] - Act 58

Shared revenue payments decreased same amount municipality reduces certain law enforcement officer, paid fire department member, or emergency medical responder funding; conditions specified [vetoed] - SB119

medicineMedicine, see Drugs

memorial highwayMemorial highway, see Road — Marking

memorials and monumentsMemorials and monuments, see Bridge; Cemetery

mendota juvenile treatment centerMendota Juvenile Treatment Center, see Juvenile detention facility

mental healthMental health

Crisis intervention training grants [Sec. 191] - Act 58

Crisis program enhancement grants expanded to counties and municipalities and to establish or enhance law enforcement and behavioral health services emergency response collaboration programs; report required - Act 184

Elder adults at risk and adults at risk: credentialed agency investigation requirements to reports of abuse, harm, neglect, exploitation, or death - Act 122

Treatment program grants re behavioral health trainees [Sec. 61, 362] - Act 58

WC law changes re liability for public safety officers, payments in cases of injuries resulting in death, furnishing of billing statements, leased employees, and statute of limitations - Act 29

mental health _ hospitals and institutesMental health — Hospitals and institutes

Battery by person placed in a facility while awaiting a commitment trial as a sexually violent person: felony crime provision - Act 13

Correctional officers, youth counselors, and psychiatric care technicians: additional compensation and recruitment and retention benefits from certain federal moneys [vetoed] - AB828

DMA to use certain federal moneys for statewide public safety interoperable communications system, emergency services IP network contracts, and geographic information systems database; Building Commission to use certain federal moneys for psychiatric bed capacity expansion in certain hospitals [vetoed] - AB240

Internet system to track availability of inpatient psychiatric beds: grant expanded to include peer run respite and crisis stabilization beds and access to county departments [Sec. 64, 236-238] [238 - vetoed] - Act 58

metropolitan sewerage districtMetropolitan sewerage district, see Sanitation and sewerage management

metropolitan transportationMetropolitan transportation

Mass transit state aid and future budget provision [Sec. 324, 325, 9144 (1)] - Act 58

Transportation infrastructure loan program: DOT required to publish and report certain information - Act 170

mfl _managed forest land_MFL (managed forest land), see Forestry

military affairs department ofMilitary Affairs, Department of

DMA lapse to general fund [Sec. 9231 (1)] [vetoed] - Act 58

Statewide emergency number system: DMA given primary responsibility with revisions; Next Generation 911 geographic systems competitive grant program created, report required - Act 261

Statewide public safety interoperable communication system: DMA to administer current and future systems [Sec. 390-392, 9131 (1)] [9131 (1) -- partial veto] - Act 58